Re: [Bashburn-info] Question on Language files

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Sunday, Aug 31st 2008 at 14:39 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>I just noticed a lot of the English Lang files text is wrapped in
=>singles quotes '  whereas most other languages use double quotes "
=>
=>Why is this?  Does it matter?  Should there be a convention anyway if
=>either work (as they seem to do)?
=>
=>I can clean up if desired tomorrow (pub time now ;-) )
=>
=>Nick

There's nothing wrong with how things are written. using any of the 
working quoting systems. I personally use a style that I developed called 
The Steven Orr System of Minimal Shell Quoting. (patent pending) :-(

Anyhoo, it looks like this:

foo=Hello					# Case 1
bar='Woops. I slipped.'				# Cabe B
baz="I like to say $foo when I meet peopls."	# Case iii

so what you have here is three distinct situations:

In case 1, the value in question is a s single word. There is no need to 
quote anything. You are allowed to use both single or double quotes, but 
but not using anything, the reader of the code immediately sees that there 
is a value that is composed of just one word.

Case 2 is obviously a multi-word value with no variable expansion. No 
double quotes needed. Yes, "s are legal, but I can look at a long string 
and see right away that there is no variable expansion going on.

Case 3 tells me right away that there are variables afoot.

So you asked about a convention? There it is.

Do you hate it? Do you love it?

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